Archive for the ‘Headquake’ tag

* Instead of our regular Four-Links this week, let’s do a video edition, starting with the above Chevrolet docuvertisment featuring a trio of Corvairs and a pair of Chevrolet trucks crossing the Darien Gap, the same stretch of jungle that Mark Smith and the Expedicion de las Americas would later cross.

* While we might not be able to drive the Bridgehampton race circuit nowadays, we can at least enjoy the footage of it that Daniel F. Stanhill III shot from his Austin-Healey on the track’s inaugural SCCA races in 1957. (via)

* And what happens when there are no racetracks? Racers will take it to the streets, as these folks did in the early 1960s on Stecker Road in Detroit. (via)

* I believe we’ve found the Michael Paul Smith of the off-road world. A guy named Headquake on Facebook scratchbuilds intricately detailed and weathered off-road trucks on RC chassis, then goes out and flogs them on rocks and dirt, in the process taking photos that make them look like full-size rigs. (via)

* Somehow Bill Hemenez never saw Pulp Fiction. Even if he had, he probably wouldn’t have known that the 1964 Chevelle that he reportedly sank tens of thousands of dollars into was the same car from the movie and the same car that was stolen from director Quentin Tarantino’s driveway in 1994. Now that the Chevelle is back in Tarantino’s hands, Hemenez says that he feels screwed by the director.

* Good Spark Garage this week took a look at the amazing photography of Bill Greene, whose family spent much of the 1960s and 1970s riding motorcycles off road in Southern California.

* Over on (recently deposed Automobile magazine editor) Jean Jennings’s Jean Knows Cars, Ron Ahrens recently profiled Kaylin Stewart, who plans to both celebrate her sweet 16 and run 200 MPH at Bonneville this year. Add land-speed racing to the means by which we can get youth interested in old cars.